Better use of healthcare data will reduce repetitive tasks in direct patient care and fuel secondary uses of data in clinical research, AI and machine learning. In this article, Graham King of annalise.ai argues for getting data right at the source, having better mechanisms to transfer it and agreeing a set of terminologies.
Graham King
annalise.ai
Surgeon William Halsted’s model of ‘see one, do one, teach one’ has long been the blueprint in medicine when it comes to obtaining proficiency in procedural skills. Although it still forms the basis of medical training to this day, it has been shown to be more effective when combined with other forms of teaching methodologies. […]
Dr Dimitri Amiras, Dr Ozbil Ege Dumenci
Charing Cross Hospital
Patients are being provided with increasing access to their medical data through mechanisms such as patient portals and the Summary Care Record. This reflects a growing expectation from patients that this data will be available to them. There are also further drivers for increasing this access to their images, including a focus on patient-centric care […]
William Cox
University of Portsmouth
With over 43 million imaging studies performed across the NHS in 2018 there is an ever-increasing pressure on radiological departments to perform fast, high throughput assessment of medical images. In a recent census report by The Royal College of Radiologists, key findings reported that consultant clinical radiologists are showing increased signs of stress and burnout, […]
Dr Matthew Blackledge, Dr Christina Messiou
The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
There is a worldwide shortage of radiologists, but a year-on-year increase in demand for imaging. According to The Royal College of Radiologists Clinical Radiology UK Workforce Consensus 2018 Report, in the UK a tenth of radiologist jobs were unfilled in 2018 and scan outsourcing spend was nearly £140 million. In this article we explore how […]
Dr Rizwan Malik
Royal Bolton Hospital
The move from hand-written notes to electronic health records (EHR) by health services across Europe is having significant effects on point of care. The rationale for making the move is compelling. EHRs can improve patient care significantly by providing clinicians with up-to-the-minute patient information at the bedside and by making that information accessible to their […]
Christophe Clerc-Renaud
Ergotron
Radiology communication with patients has traditionally been indirect. Radiologists throughout the world receive requests for imaging from referring clinicians and send written reports of examinations back to referrers, leaving the patient out of the communication loop. Direct communication with patients by radiologists has been proposed previously by eminent radiological authors such as Berlin, the doyenne […]
Dr Julie Cox
City Hospital Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
I suppose I really should be more understanding when I hear a colleague complaining that the 2,000-slice CT has taken “over two minutes” to download to their PACS workstation at home, for it is all too easy to forget just how significant the digital transformation has been for medical imaging over the last decade or […]
Dr Stephen Fenn
Royal Hampshire County Hospital